Cash-carrier



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- W; L. WALKER.

CASH CARRIER.

.Patented AugfSO. 1887.

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"NAITAED STATES Parri-Nr irme,

WILLIAM L. WALKER, OF KENT, OHIO.

CASH-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent-No. 369,038, dated August 30, 1887.

Application tiled November 17, 1886. Serial No. 219,172.

To all whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. WALKER, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Kent, in the county of Hardin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Carriers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification,

and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved store-service apparatus, showing both ends of the wire track; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of one end of the track and of the car thereon.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

My invention has relation to that class of store-service apparatus in which the car is provided with grooved wheels traveling upon a wire track, and in which reciprocating slides at the ends of the track serve to give the car its initiative motion at the ends of the track;

' and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the wire track, whichis secured at its ends to uprights 2having their upper portions, 3, curved inward toward thetrack and formed with downwardly-bent ends 4, having vertical grooved sheaves 5 journaled in them. The wire track passes at its ends through perforations 6 in the downwardlybent ends of the uprights, and the said ends are provided with perforations 7 below the perforations for the track. l.

The car 8 is formed, preferably, by two side pieces, 9, secured together and forming a long receptacle for the cash or small parcels,`and these side pieces are formed with upwardlyprojecting arms 10 near the ends, between which arms the grooved wheels or rollers 11 are journaled, the said wheels traveling upon the wire track, whichis confined between the wheel-supporting arms.

Airod, 12, is formed with slides 13 and 14, sliding upon the track respectively within the frame formed by the upper end of the upright (No model.)

and outside of the same, and one end of this rod is formed with a socket, 15, in which a yielding bumper, 16, is secured, the said bumper serving to abut against the car when it arrives at the end of the track and to bear against it when the car is dispatched, and the inner slide of the reciprocating rod is provided With a downwardly-projecting arm, 17, to which .a cord, 18, is secured, which cord passes over the grooved pulley in the end of the downwardly-bent portion of the frame, having a handle, 19, at its downwardly-depending end.

A spring-rod, 20, is formed with an upwardly-curved outer end and with alongitudinally-slotted vertical plate, 21, at its inner end, with which slotted plate it is adjustably secured upon the outer side of the downwardly.- projecting portion of the frame of the upright, being secured by means of a screw, 22, inserted into the said vertical end through the slot. f

It willnow be seen that when the device is to ybe used the cash or parcel is placed within the receptacle formed by the car, whereupon the cord is drawn quickly downward, sliding the reciprocating rod outward upon the wire 'track and giving the car, which bears with one end against the bumper at the end of the reciprocating rod, a push, which will send it to the other end of the track. When the car arrives at the other end of the wire track, the forward wheel will strike the upwardlycurved end of the spring-rod or brake-rod, which will. thus break the force with which the car arrives at the end of the track, whereupon the car will strike the bumper at the end of the reciprocating rod at that end, being retained by the brake-rod.

The brakerod may be adj usted to its desired height by adjusting the slotted4 plate upon the screw, so as Vto place the rod in such a position that it will bind sufiiciently against the grooved wheel to hold the car in position and to break the force with which it arrives at the vend of the track, while it will not bind upon the'wheel with sufficient force to retard the .car when it is thrown out upon the track by ICC the force of the car by being pushed back by the same, the cur thus setting the reciprocating rods ut the ends of the truck when it arrives there.

Having thus described myinvention,Icluin1 and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. In u cash-carrier, the combination of two supports, euch being,r provided with a. downwurdly-bent end, a. track-wire secured at its ends to said supports and passed through a perforation in each of said bent ends, a rod suspended from each end of said wire and passed through another perforation in said bent end, a pulley journaled in the lower end of each of said ends, and a cord secured to each of said rods and passed through said pulleys.

2. In a cash-carrier, the combination of' :L track-wire, u cash-receptacle suspended therefrom, a rod suspended from each end of the track-wire by means of slides, one of said slides projecting below said rod, forming an arm, a. pulley suspended below said rod in a line with the lower end of said arm, und u cord secured to said arm and passed over said pul ley.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my oW-n I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM L. WALKER.

Witnesses:

HERRMAN M. WALKER, FRED M. CHILDS. 

